Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by cm2187 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:12AM
(#14794792)
I took the habit of feeding fake random information to all websites asking too noisey questions and keeping track of them in case I need them for recovery. A website doesn't need my exact date of birth, at most it may need my approximate age. It doesn't need my real name either, even if it wants to deliver something to me, the address should be all it takes. It doesn't need my real email address, all it needs is some email alias that I can delete. Good practice for privacy, spam management and security since it is harder to guess this information and to reuse it when leaked.
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Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by fiatpandas on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:06AM
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My usps postman won't deliver mail if the name on the letter doesn't match the names on the mail slot.
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:16AM
(#14803723)
Have things shipped to "current resident"
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by x32 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:32AM
(#14794880)
So much this. I've never saw the need to do give information out like that. As far as every website is concerned my DOB is 01/01/1990.
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by noja on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:12AM
(#14795026)
Thanks for the information :)
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by drewmol on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @12:08PM
(#14797652)
01/23/45, down side is I am getting targeted for a lot of end of life planning ads as of recently! (through snail mail of course)
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by Siemer on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:13AM
(#14795036)
I always use 1/1/1911 to shave off a few more of those precious microseconds
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by sverhagen on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:29AM
(#14795289)
If so, did you then just compromise yourself?
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by hueving on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:56AM
(#14794966)
Careful with mailing physical things via the USPS to different names at your address. You might run afoul of mail fraud laws.
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by evincarofautumn on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:20AM
(#14795058)
You could use always use plausible nicknames. Humans will tolerate them, but exact-matching computer systems won’t. For example, if you were Nathaniel William such-and-such, you’d have a large supply: Nat, Nath, Natty, Nathan, Niel, Neil, Thaniel, N. W., William, Will, Willy, Bill, Billy, Liam…
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by stevekemp on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:16AM
(#14795247)
I've had a few recent discussions with various people at post-offices, here in Finland.
The counter staff repeatedly complain that parcels are addressed to "Steve" not "Steven" (which is the name on my official ID.)
It's a very weird situation to be in, as somebody from the UK where such things just don't matter.
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by cm2187 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:43AM
(#14795343)
I don't see how it would even matter. What if you host a friend for a few weeks at your place. Isn't that friend allowed to receive mail?
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by lmm on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:49AM
(#14795362)
In many countries there are super-serious laws about mail being delivered to the addressed recipient and not opened or interfered with by anyone else, from the days when it was the only form of official communication and used for matters of life and death.
Re:Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the p...
by Sharlin on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @06:31AM
(#14795512)
It's not about matching the address to the legal resident, but matching the recipient name to the name in your official ID when you go to a post office to pick up a parcel. That is, authentication.
Letters and small enough parcels are delivered directly to your address; with those the recipient name doesn't really matter except for possibly disambiguating an incomplete/incorrect address at the mail sorting center.